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Fine_Rabid_DogInternet Hate Machine
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Posted:
What ever you do, don't go taking me seriously wink



Why the hell is philosphy reserved only for poi?



"Poi is life"...... where the hell is staff in that equation? tongue



Poi gets all the "There is no move" BS... what do we get? Nowt.



S'not fair. I want to be able to terrify newbies with such confusing words of wisdom, but yet there doesn't seem to be any spiritual side to staff... Lame!



Is it because staffers are, by default, meat heads? Is it beacuse philosophy is reserved only for the wussier side of object manipulation?



Should I just shut the hell up before I get lynched?

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yoniGOLD Member
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Posted:
hmmm i think i would be best advised to keep quiet now

UCOF "evolution: Poi -> stick -> hoops -> devil stick -> juggling club -> juggling ball -> crayons."

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DurbsBRONZE Member
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Posted:
So - an expanded staff philosophy:

Staff is Bonk -But at least it's always hard

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Fine_Rabid_DogInternet Hate Machine
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Posted:
ubblol

biggrin

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Bender_the_OffenderGOLD Member
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Posted:
for the person willing to invest a bit of their life into something they can be passionate about, of course a philosophy will arise!



This cult of comparison will cause dissatisfaction.

If you had never seen a poi being twirled (took me about a coupla months) would your opinions on staff philosophy remain so?

Far from being something that should be held in competition, I find that the philosophies in Poi and Staff (and for that matter, dance and martial arts) to compatible, with little adjustment.



There's *much* to be gained in exploring the common ground than there is in examining differences.

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FireByNiteSILVER Member
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Posted:
on a personal note, I'm learning poi before I learn staff just to get used to spinning with fire itself. Don't get me wrong, I like the poi but definately want to learn the staff (soonish)
Poi is just easier....(to start with) IMO

On a side note, I've laughed alot more reading this thread than half the poi threads. ubblol I guess more men then women tend to do staff & vice versa with poi.....

Are you up for it?
wink;)


MynciBRONZE Member
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Posted:
Strugz decided to test the staff is bonk theory on tuesday....and bonked me right in the frigging poi....Think his contact missed his elbow..

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.


mcpPLATINUM Member
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Posted:
so you weren't making a porn movies at the time then?

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Posted:
you were there Meg - were we that bad youve forgotten already wink

ubblol

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mcpPLATINUM Member
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Posted:
trying to figure out if I'd blanked the gay porn from my memory and overwritten it with a more pleasing memory of contact gone wrong. Total recall stylee.

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

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MynciBRONZE Member
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Posted:
Porn!!! eek ....maybe.... strugz definately F**ked me..ubblol

*pouts* see it does work *strikes manly pose* and the trick looks better when I do it.....

A couple of balls short of a full cascade... or maybe a few cards short of a deck... we'll see how this all fans out.


strugzBRONZE Member
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Posted:
ubblol

Id call it total contact ubblol i may even post it in the new moves thread "conveyor belt to someoneelses balls"

difficult move to pull off - i must be good wink

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mcpPLATINUM Member
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Posted:
key is in tha post. Yeah, but you didn't catch it again after the contact poi bit...

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

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MynciBRONZE Member
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Posted:
hard to catch anything when you laugh that hard afterwards... ubblol

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truespinnewbie
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Posted:
Written by: nite owl


on a personal note, I'm learning poi before I learn staff just to get used to spinning with fire itself. Don't get me wrong, I like the poi but definately want to learn the staff (soonish)
Poi is just easier....(to start with) IMO




really? I picked up staff *much* quicker than poi - and you smack yourself in the crackers less frequently with the staff - but hitting yourself in the head hurts more with staff...
I guess my knackers are more valuable to me than my head/brain...

Fine_Rabid_DogInternet Hate Machine
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Posted:
I also picked up staff much quicker.

But have you tried contact yet truespin?

Took me ages just to get a bloody half steve! biggrin

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truespinnewbie
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Posted:
only *just* tried contact (I've only had my staff for a month...)
have got a shakey forwards fishtail with my right hand and that's it...
*very* addictive though
BTW what's a half (or full steve? video?) I'm self taught so don't know any of the names or in fact the moves..!

simian110% MONKEY EVERY TIME ALL THE TIME JUST CANT STOP THE MONKEY
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Posted:
is this why there's no staff philosophy?

Staffers get distracted and start talking about what steves are?
(search for a vid in this very forum called "Drew and Staff", it's labelled in the vid as 'Steve's move', funnily enough...)

Do staff threads go offtopic more than poi threads?

Is this a sign of staffer's greater ability at lateral thinking than the constricted and narrow minded poi spinners?

Is this also the cause of our planes generally being shitter too?

All these and more will be answered by God during a small Q&A session in the tea room at 11:45.
Please don't use milk that has been labelled with other people's names UNLESS YOU ASK FIRST, thank you.

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mcpPLATINUM Member
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Posted:
Why would you get sooo concerned with philosophy, when instead you can just go spin throw and contact a stick around?

My philosophy: I like sticks.

Or maybe: "Careful! It's your HEAD!"

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.


LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
Meg: how about 'MORE CHEESE!' biggrin

hmmm... I think a lot of the philosophy stuff comes from people talking about spinning at an advanced stage of the evening when they are under the influence of one or more recreational drugs, cos its kind of interesting to see what people can come up with, and its kind of fun.

And being philosophy, you can say anything you want about it. It's just fun to look for wider patterns in things.

Plus you can philosophise while in a very small space, whereas it is much more difficult to spin iin this condition.

sooo.... philosophy of things is an excuse to talk about spinning on a level which everyone can participate in, rather than talking about technical stuff which just confuses everyone.

Getting to the point, here's my little piece of staff philosophy:

The staff is rigid, and therefore represents that in your life which is unchangable. Learning to manipulate the staff represents the way in which we deal with our current situation.

Just as some situations seem great and then come to bite you on the arse, some of the greatest staff moves often lead to *bonk*

Thus a staff spin is a reflection of our ability to deal with life and to apply skills we have learnt in the past to avoid getting twatted in the head today.

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

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Posted:
Written by: Durbs


The problem is...

Poi are much harder to use than staffs.
They have a life of their own and will happily swing by themselves.





Now thats a load of bollox. Failing with a poi may be more potentonaly faital but staff is not easier in any way. But most staffers never get beond just twearling the staff over your head or ether side of you in diffrent ways. Take using 2 staffs vs 2 poi for instans. where two staffs has 4 points of Flames to keep in mind while poi only has 2. Try to do a 360 rotation throw in front of you both two staffs, and now try the same thing with 2 pois. Whats easy and not depends purly on how far your willing to take it. How hard somthing is compeard to somthing else has only to do with what lvl you want to take it to.

Philosophy is important to. Staffers just tend to be a bit more secure in there ways and dont need to spend houers at end talking about it instedd of enjoing the art. ubbloco

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Fine_Rabid_DogInternet Hate Machine
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Posted:
If you were to compare poi to staff, it would be more sensible to say single staff vs a pair of poi, and double staff to quadruple poi.

Planes for both comparisons are pretty much the same wink

I disagree with you on saying poi is harder than staff. I've been ding poi and staff for roughly the same period of time, and staff has come to me a lot quicker than with poi. Poi requires an almost 6th sense to help you guide were you want the poi to go. Staff is far more obediant, and the points follow each other.

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."


KyrianDreamer
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Posted:
The staff is harder than poi debate has been around forever guys... its all about what different people are good at.

*Personally* I do find poi easier, altho less interesting as
1) They stay in my hands unless I am talking on the phone at the same time
2) They generally stay going about where I sent them within reason, wheras the staff has a tendancy to do part of a move I told it to and then wander off over some other part of my body/ the landing/ some poor person nearby/ etc

-which if you'll notice is the almost exact opposite of what frd said....

Personally I like megs second suggestion. Well, maybe I shouldn't say like, as I prefer the days when i fearlessly attempted to do some things with double three-sections, but I guess we all grow older sometimes... I should say I follow that one a lot. Especially as my staffs hurt more than just about anyone else's I've played with....

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LazyAngelGOLD Member
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Posted:
umm think this thread has gone a bit off topic into the staff vs. poi discussion.

But as far as I can see, the main philosophy seems to be: don't hit yourself

a much more down to earth philosophy than those in the poi move forums, but surely more of an instruction than a philosophy?

Because ActiveAngel sounds like a feminine deodorant

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Chronofracture333Hobo Gaylord
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Posted:
" There are many people who, even when studying the Way of the Staff, think that these skills will not be useful in real life. In fact, the true Way of the Staff is to train so that these skills are useful at any time, and to teach these skills so that they will be useful in all things..."

Miyamoto Musashi - ( if he'd been into staff )

*no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no*

"Oooh, what a shiny new move!"


KyrianDreamer
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Location: York, England


Posted:
I like chrono's....

I think when we get beyond "try not to damage anything when you hit yourself" the next step is just yoda:

Do or do not, there is no try.

or drew:

Don't TRY to do it, Just do it.

biggrin

Keep your dream alive
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Shalom VeAhavah

New Hampshire has a point....


mcpPLATINUM Member
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Posted:
My new philosophy: If I get the urge to lay smackdown, I'm not going to allow myself to do contact.

This should make life interesting...

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"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.


KyrianDreamer
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Posted:
Interesting? Does interesting mean "free of contact staff" these days? tongue

Keep your dream alive
Dreamin is still how the strong survive

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New Hampshire has a point....


mcpPLATINUM Member
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Posted:
It will make it more of a challenge. Contact is too easy for smackdown purposes.

"the now legendary" - Kaskade
"the still legendary" - Kaskade

I spunked in my friend's aquarium and the fish ate it. I love all fish. Especially the pink ones. They are my bitches. - Anon.


Chronofracture333Hobo Gaylord
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Posted:
Reading this thread reminds me of a zen proverb...

novice rushes up to staff jedi;

"Master, I finally understand. There is no staff! "

!!! BONK !!!

"So how do you explain the lump on your head? "

biggrin

*no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no moves there are no*

"Oooh, what a shiny new move!"


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Posted:
is this thread still going? rolleyes if anything it seems staff spinners are to busy cracking jokes, talking absolute rubbish and dissing poi to come up with any decent philosophy... tongue

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